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Company name

Kidato by Promanent

Overview

We need a set of icons and style elements for our range of e-learning software products.

Kidato Studio is a set of different tools for authoring, designing, managing and publishing productions for e-training. Kidato Studio is a complete learning development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with tight integration with Kidato Student Applications. The output of Kidato can be print (ie. book with exercise questions), interactive cd (cd with our software and your training), online training (exercise online on Kidato Live), etc..

We need a set of 7 application icons for at least the following tools in Kidato Studio:
1. Kidato Studio (main icon)
2. Kidato Browser (application that runs on the student's computer and runs the trainings produced with our tools, ie. like Adobe Reader vs. Adobe Acrobat, the first for showing PDf files and the second for building PDF files)
3. Kidato Director (basic tool for designing and writing your training)
4. Kidato Producer (basic tool that helps publishing your training to different platforms)
5. Kidato Toolkit (professional tool for database entry and management tool)
6. Kidato GUI Designer (professional tool for designing and tweeking the looks of your training)
7. Kidato Live (online version of Kidato)

More information can be found in the complete design brief attached to this contest.

Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach

Users of our software
Professionals
Teachers
Schools, universities, training institutes
Anybody wishing to do something with questions, tests and quizzes
For us a new market

Requirements

We need a full set of application icons in all mayor sizes: 256x256, 64x64, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 20x20 and 16x16 using the color set that is applicable for these sizes. 24 bit down to 256 colors.

Icons should clearly identify each tool in Kidato Studio, but there should be no doubt that they all belong to a family of tools.

We require you to supply us with your design work in PSD Adobe Photoshop Elements format. With different style elements in different layers. This will enable us to use these elements in new icons and other design work.

The design for the icons should be attractive, have a pleasant modern look, but should also be simple to implement and fast to load. There is no style determined yet, only the Kidato logo and colours are given. You can download the logo in the original colours from this contest.